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Our Missing Hearts

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內容簡介 《無聲告白》、《星星之火》作者伍綺詩2022最新作！伍綺詩以關注家庭、種族和人際關係議題著稱，新作視野更擴及政治抗爭。小說描述不久將來，ＰＡＣＴ（美國與文化傳統保護法案）縱容美國政府厲行種族分離策略，歧視亞裔暴行也被合理化。伯德九歲時，華裔詩人母親繆無故蹤影，白人父親囑咐他與母親斷絕關係、低調生活。三年後，伯德因一幅神祕圖畫決意尋母，進而發現繆激發了反ＰＡＣＴ藝術行動⋯From the #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, comes one of the most highly anticipated books of the year – the inspiring new novel about a mother’s unbreakable love in a world consumed by fear. “As lyrical as it is chilling, as astonishing as it is empathic, Our Missing Hearts arguably achieves literary perfection.” —Booklist (starred review) “Ng’s most powerful work to date.” —People MagazineTwelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve “American culture” in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to relocate children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic—including the work of Bird’s mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet who left the family when he was nine years old. Bird has grown up disavowing his mother and her poems; he doesn’t know her work or what happened to her, and he knows he shouldn’t wonder. But when he receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, he is pulled into a quest to find her. His journey will take him back to the many folktales she poured into his head as a child, through the ranks of an underground network of librarians, into the lives of the children who have been taken, and finally to New York City, where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of much-needed change. Our Missing Hearts is an old story made new, of the ways supposedly civilized communities can ignore the most searing injustice. It’s a story about the power—and limitations—of art to create change, the lessons and legacies we pass on to our children, and how any of us can survive a broken world with our hearts intact."

作者介紹

作者介紹 Celeste NgCeleste Ng is the number one New York Times bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere. Her third novel, Our Missing Hearts, will be published in October 2022. Ng is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and her work has been published in over thirty languages.

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最佳賣點 : 結合反烏托邦與東方神話，刻劃亞裔民族面對的困境與失落